Twelve kinds of taste
Which one are you?
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Fiction, Social life and customs, Ficción, Dominican Americans
Originally published in 1997, Drown instantly garnered terrific acclaim. Moving from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey, these heartbreaking, completely original stories established Diaz as one of contemporary fictions most exhilarating new voices.
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Prestige, character-led, bleak and meticulous.
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On Open Library, 16 have read it and 60 want to.
“We were on our way to the colmado for an errand.”
Junot Díaz (born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a former fiction editor at Boston Review. Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience, particularly the Latino immigrant experience. He received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel *The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,* and received a MacArthur Fellowship "Genius Grant" in 2012.
Companions we picked from the closest works, and how to take them.
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Taste Buds. Other media included when they land close.
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“Is this Junot Díaz's best work?”
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“Is Drown a masterpiece, not merely a very good book?”
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“Would Drown hit harder if it came out today rather than in 1996?”
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